Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition, all TEs in both class 1 and class 2 contain flanking direct repeats (Figure 3). Flanking direct repeats are ...

However, in order to understand McClintock's observations and the logic that led to her discovery of TEs, it's first necessary to be aware that the phenotypic system McClintock studied-the ...